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Just Another Year, Niki Kohandel - MOMA
Just Another Year by Niki Kohandel is currently streaming via MOMA, as part of
An Evening with Habibi Collective until Monday 22 March, 12:00 pm (EST). See the MOMA website for details.
Read the interview with Niki on the UCL website.
The Bird Game and Confessions of a Crow - FVU
Marianna Simnett's The Bird Game and Confessions of a Crow are showing online at FVU, from 18 March - 17 April 2021. See the FVU website.
A Terrible Fiction - online Glasgow Short Film Festival
A Terrible Fiction directed by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy is showing online as part of the Glasgow Short Film Festival, from 22 - 28 March 2021. For the full programme see the Glasgow Shorts Film Festival website.
Katie Paterson on Shock Waves, BBC Sounds
BBC
Katie Paterson talks about how the pandemic and lockdown have affected her creativity on Shock Waves, BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000t40c.
Jazmin Donaldson:Desencanto - We Collect Madrid
Jazmin Donaldson:Desencanto is showing at We Collect, Count of Aranda, 20, 28001, Madrid, from 27 February - 30 March 2021. See the We Collect website.
Safe as Milk - Arusha Gallery
Safe as Milk, co-curated by Anna Chutova, which includes work by Anna Choutova, Grace Mattingly and Lindsey McLean, is showing at Arusha Gallery, 8 March - 8 April 2021. See the Arusha Gallery website.
Alvaro Barrington - Hepworth Gallery School Prints Campaign
Alvaro Barrington is one of the artists contributing to this year's Hepworth Gallery School Prints campaign, which places artwork in schools to potentially transform how children think about art and who can be an artist. See the article in The Guardian for further information.
Zarina Bhimji: Black Pocket - Sharjah Art Foundation
Zarina Bhimji: Black Pocket is showing at Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Mureijah Art Spaces, UAE, from 2 October 2020 - 10 April 2021. See: sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/zarina-bhimji.
Gender and Decolonisation: an Online Discussion - Afterall Journal
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is speaking at Gender and Decolonisation: an Online Discussion on 16 March, one of a series of events on Decolonisation in the 2020s hosted by Afterall Journal. Register via Eventbrite.
Les Yeux Clos (Eyes Closed) - Perrotin Paris
Paolo Salvador is showing in Les Yeux Clos, at Perrotin, 76 Rue de Turenne, Paris, from 6 February - 27 March 2021. See the Perrotin Gallery website.
Jocelyn McGregor's in conversation with Mariama Attah is broadcast via podcast on 8 March 2021 to coincide with International Women's Day, ahead of her solo show, Mantle at Castlefield Gallery (dates tbc). See the Castlefield Gallery website for details.
Slade School of Fine Art 150th Anniversary: Slade 150
This autumn, the Slade will celebrate 150 years of fine art teaching and research with a varied programme of events which reflect on the past, showcase the present, and look ahead to the future.
Celebratory events will range from a Slade 150 symposium series to exhibitions in the UCL Octagon Gallery and UCL Art Museum. A significant anniversary event will also take place towards the end of 2022. All events will seek to engage in critical conversations around access, inclusion and the future of the arts and higher education.
We look forward to involving the entire Slade community in this milestone year. Please follow #Slade150 to keep up to date with these events.
Tonight the Air is Warm - Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
Sarah Joo Ching is showing in Tonight the Air is Warm online at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge, from 26 February - 27 March 2021. See https://kristinhjellegjerde.com/exhibitions/208/overview/
Read the interview: How Sarah Choo learnt to express herself on UCL Alumni stories.
Encountering Pain Hearing, seeing, speaking published by UCL Press
Published by UCL Press: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/108203
A unique compilation of perspectives on persistent pain, Encountering Pain: hearing, seeing, speaking edited by Deborah Padfield and Joanna M Zakrzewska, is published on 15 February, 2021 by UCL Press. The book grew out of a long history of PhD work, post doc work and subsequent multidisciplinary research and collaboration across and beyond UCL.
'A majestic volume. Visually striking, intellectually challenging, and experientially transformative, this book promises to change how everyone encounters pain.’
Dr Rob Boddice (Freie Universität Berlin)
'The communication of something that resists being expressed straightforwardly in verbal form metamorphoses, as you read this extraordinarily rich and innovative volume, into a metaphor for life itself, for who we are, how we become social beings by developing empathy and respect for the pain of others, for how we develop and then question through these interactions our sense of identity.’
Prof. Stella Bruzzi ( Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL)
The book is available via UCL Press: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/108203, includes open access pdf download.
Secret Sunshines - Arusha Gallery
Alumna Grace Mattingly has a solo show, Secret Sunshines, at Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, from 14 - 28 February 2021. Show available online via: https://www.arushagallery.com/viewing-room/17-grace-mattingly/.
Online artist's talk Haroon Mirza - Ikon Gallery
Alumna Hoor Al Qasimi is speaking at the Online artist’s talk – Haroon Mirza via Ikon Gallery on Friday 12 February 2021, from 1pm - 2:15pm. See: https://www.ikon-gallery.org/event/online-artist-talk-haroon-mirza/.
Larry Achiampong announced as Artist in Residence for Smithfield public realm redevelopment
Larry Achiampong named as Artist in Residence for the Smithfield public realm redevelopment in the City of London. See Art Consultancy's press release for further information.
UCL East Provost Art Prize 2021
Before stepping down as President & Provost of UCL, Professor Michael Arthur launched the new UCL East Provost Art Prize. Until the opening of the new campus, the Prize will annually recognise the achievements of five graduates from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL who will each receive a £2,000 award. Their selected artwork will feature at UCL East, on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.
The 2020 awardees are:
- Lydia Makin: The Hush of Your Breath
- Ellie Hayward: InsideOut
- Francisca Sosa Lopez: persianas
- Mataio Austin Dean: commissioned to produce a new work for UCL East
- Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham: commissioned to produce a new work for UCL East
Full story on UCL East's website.
Online Family Saturday: Painting & collage workshop - Monica Perez Vega
Monica Perez Vega is leading an Online Family Saturday: Painting & collage workshop via Zoom at Ikon Gallery, Saturday 6 February 2021 from 11.00am - 12.00pm. Reservations are essential and booking is free (suggested £5 donation). See the Ikon Gallery website.